#climate commitment

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South Korea Plans To Downsize Nuclear & Coal While Quadrupling Renewables By 2034

South Korean President Moon Jae-in previously committed to moving away from nuclear power and toward renewable energy. Now, the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy has released the final draft of the Ninth Basic Plan for Electricity Supply & Demand for 2020 to 2034, and it reaffirms the president’s pledge...

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China Commits To Carbon Neutrality Before 2060

A surprising announcement was made at the United Nations General Assembly in September by President Xi Jinping: China is committing to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. The pledge means the nation’s next five-year plan (2021-25) could be the most crucial document in global energy market history. The targets outlined in...

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Economic change through climate commitments

“Every country in the world would be economically better off if all could agree to strengthen their commitments on the climate crisis through international cooperation, new research has found.”

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Strengthen worldwide climate commitments to improve economy, study finds

Current carbon pledges are too weak to meet Paris climate goals and would lead to dangerous levels of global heating

“A study published Tuesday in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature finds that if nations fail to rein in greenhouse gas emissions sufficiently, as agreed upon in the international Paris Agreement, the global economy stands to lose at least $150 trillion to as much as $792 trillion by the end of the century.”

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Stronger action on climate change would benefit the economy, study finds

A common argument claims taking action on climate change​ is too expensive. But new research finds just the opposite: We can't afford not to

[oberlinadmissions]

Carbon Neutral by 2025

Carbon Commitment + Resilience Commitment = Climate Commitment

Oberlin College took a leadership role in environmental stewardship when former President Nancy Dye established Oberlin as one of the nation's first institutions of higher education to accept the goal of climate neutrality by signing the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment (ACUPCC).

As a charter signatory in 2006, Oberlin was one of the first four schools in the United States and the first in its peer group to sign the ACUPCC, an initiative developed by Second Nature , the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), and ecoAmerica to address what they term "the defining challenge of our century—the twin crises of energy sustainability and climate change."

Oberlin College selected the year 2025 to achieve carbon neutrality.

In 2015, Second Nature added an additional commitment opportunity to their framework - resilience . Oberlin signed this commitment in the charter signatory period taking leadership to work alongside the greater Oberlin community to increase our community resilience.

Oberlin College is a signatory of the climate commitment.

Read about Oberlin’s and other institutions are on the cutting edge of decarbonization! USGBC+ Article